Chapter 98 Battle of Lamato River (7)

"Report! Lord Commander, our blocking force has been repelled, and the enemy is attacking our right flank!"

Although Felixius was mentally prepared, he still felt a burst of heart palpitations when he heard the news. He stared anxiously at the dust-filled front, the shadows and the roaring voices were still the same as before, and the Diorian Legion, who had high hopes for him, still showed no signs of defeating the enemy...

"Lord Commander, we... what should we do?" the adjutant asked nervously.

Felixius was silent: How can the coalition at this moment have any extra strength to stop the enemy reinforcements!

It's just that he still has a bit of luck in his heart, but this luck was quickly shattered.

"Report Commander, there are enemy reinforcements on the right flank! There are... tens of thousands of people! They are attacking Crotone's back line, Crotone... Crotone people can't resist... It has begun to retreat... "

"What!!" Felixius and his followers were dumbfounded as if struck by lightning.

The battle-hardened Felixius was the first to come back to his senses, and immediately shouted, "Retreat! Blow the evacuation horn! Retreat immediately!!"

Now that the defeat of the coalition forces has been decided, then... it is necessary to bring the Fourth and Fifth Corps back as safely as possible! Under the painful gaze of Felixius, "Woo! Woo! Woo!..." The sound of the retreating bugle resounded from the rear of the coalition forces.

The sound of the horn surprised not only the Dionian soldiers, but also officers at all levels.

"Is Felixus crazy?! Seeing that we are about to break the defense of the Syracuses, he dares to let us retreat at this time!" Hughes told him why he chose to retreat, and it was difficult for him to accept it for a while.

"Give me a little more time! A little more time! Wait until my legion has defeated the enemy on the opposite side before retreating! The Dionysian Legion has never been defeated, and we cannot lose this honor in our hands! This is a shame!  …"

Hearing the painful roar of the legionnaire, everyone around them bowed their heads sadly.

…………………………

"We... lost..." After listening to the messenger's words, Epithenis clenched the mane of the warhorse under his crotch, and the tame warhorse neighed again and kept digging the soil with his front hooves. unaware.

"...Move the military flag." He squeezed the words out of his mouth with difficulty, tears already flashing on his face.

When the bugle blows,

Legionnaires also need to look at the instructions of the military flag. This is because the sound on the battlefield is noisy, and it is difficult for both sides to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. With the instructions of the military flag, it can be confirmed.

"Look! The flag is moving!!" The Dionian soldiers who looked back were in an uproar.

Not only the corps flag, the brigade flag, but also the company flag waved to the rear one after another...

…………………………

"Congratulations, my lord! The great Greeks have been defeated, and you have won this battle! This is a great victory. From now on, your lord has the final say in this land!" Facing the praises of Damocles, Di Onysius was not too complacent, more than 70,000 people against more than 50,000 people, the victory was expected. But what he didn't expect was that the most elite heavy infantry in Syracuse was completely suppressed by Dionia's so-called "Legion" on the battlefield. The key point was that the fourth and fifth legions composed of aliens (Dionysius was more attentive in collecting intelligence on Dionysius), what if they encountered the first and second armies they boasted, the heavy infantry of Syracuse?

Therefore, even with the victory, Dionysius remained vigilant: "Although the enemy was defeated, but the battle was not over, he continued to urge the reinforcements on both flanks to continue the pursuit, killing and capturing more Great Greeks, especially Dai Onian!"

"You take all the messengers and find me Akirita and Gaba, and tell them that I am very angry that they are not following orders and assisting the enemy's right flank, unless they immediately give me a pursuit of those black armored enemies. , kill them as much as possible, and capture them, otherwise they won't even want to get even a silver coin as a reward!"

……………………

Effieart had also practiced how to retreat in the previous military training, but he did not expect to use it in the first battle. After smashing the long shield at the enemy with great distress, he turned and ran away with the short sword in hand. The saber thrown by the enemy hit him on the back, and he stumbled and almost fell.

Effieart used both hands and feet to get up quickly. His team had already run a dozen meters away from the enemy's array. He looked at the flying flag and eagerly chased after him.

At the moment when he turned around and ran away, the danger was the greatest. Some soldiers were stabbed by the enemy who was catching up. Seeing their teammates fall to the ground and calling for help, the legionnaires who had always emphasized unity could not care about saving their teammates at this moment. They ran desperately, just hoping to keep a distance from the enemy.

When the sub-commander's "Quick! Quick! Quick!..." voice clearly reached his ears, Effieart's nervous mood was temporarily relieved. The commander said "Quick! Quick!" does not mean to let the soldiers run around. According to the "Dionysian Military Law", they should try their best to gather under the nearest army flag and follow it during the retreat and run. , to avoid causing too much confusion and disorganization.

Running and running, Effieart heard the footsteps behind him gradually dwindling. Looking back, the enemy had been pulled away by him a lot, and some even stopped chasing. If you think about it, you can understand that within an hour, wearing heavy armor and fighting non-stop, the physical strength has long been exhausted. The Dionysian soldiers are trying to survive, and in their usual military training, armed off-road It is one of the important projects, and the Spartans have also done this training since childhood. The Syracuse soldiers who had won the battle obviously did not have the desire and ability to pursue them.

Effieart's nervousness was calmed down even more.

But after the large army continued to run backwards for a while, it gradually slowed down.

It turned out that the position of the Fourth Army was to the right, adjacent to Trina. Enamenas led Campania mercenaries from west to east in an attempt to catch the fleeing Trina, while the sailors of the fleet moored on the riverbank. Seeing that there was something cheap to pick up, in order to get the spoils, they also went ashore to participate in the interception, which made this large net of pursuit become more and more self-dense, forcing a large group of panic-stricken "fish" of the Trina to flee eastward. , naturally squeezed the space for the retreat of Dionia's Fourth Army.

"Quick! Quick! Quick!..." Epithenes, who was standing on the bank of the Colache River, hurriedly urged his legionnaires to cross the river quickly, regardless of whether the soldiers could hear him in such a chaotic scene. shout.

Felixius, who was standing on the other side of the Colache River, was even more painful. He did not expect that in order to limit the detour of the enemy's cavalry, he chose this river as a barrier for the rear line, but now it has become a barrier to the retreat of the Dionysian Legion. Although the river was neither wide nor deep, thousands of terrified soldiers poured in together, and instantly trampled the river bank into mud. Once the panicked soldier fell, it would not only be a disaster for him, but also for the soldiers behind They are even more disasters.

Countless soldiers in the riverbed are entangled, and there is no order at all. Everyone is pushing me, and the scene is becoming more chaotic...

Felixius seemed to have seen the reappearance of the tragedy in the Persian Canyon. His shouts and reminders were so insignificant in this ten-mile-long river section that they could be completely ignored.

Felixius was full of remorse and did not dare to look again. When he turned his head, he saw a row of trumpeters and drummers behind him, and a flash of light flashed: "Quick! Play "Battlefield March"! Play "Battlefield March" ! …”

He shouted like crazy, so frightened the trumpeters hurriedly put the horn mouth on the right shoulder and put it in their mouths. Because they were nervous, the first note was out of tune, but gradually they played more and more. The more fluent, the more powerful.

"Battlefield March" is also adapted from the symphony that Daves heard in his previous life. It uses a majestic, strong and fast melody to show the fearless spirit of soldiers running to the battlefield and killing the enemy. When this melody echoed in the Colache River, the soldiers of the Fourth Legion who heard it were awakened with courage and honor, and gradually recovered their senses, and the chaos in the riverbed was also lessened...

At the same time, Felixius ordered the light armoured soldiers who had retreated from the river bank to go down into the river bed and form a dense array to separate the Trina people, so as to reduce the disturbance to the orderly retreat of Dionysian Fourth Army, and even in an emergency. Under certain circumstances, they can also be driven westward by force. At this moment, Felixius was also forced to deal with his allies ruthlessly.

"Sir Commander, the Fifth Army... The large force of the Fifth Army has not reached the river bank yet!" An adjutant hurried to report.

"What?!" Felixius felt that his head was about to explode, and the waves rose again and again, and he couldn't help but get angry: "What is Drakes doing?!"

……………………

Due to Drakes' unwillingness, he was hesitant to retreat. Most of the soldiers heard the bugle sound, but saw that the flag was not moved, and did not dare to retreat.

It was not until Drakes found that the troops on the left and right sides of the Fifth Army were all retreating, and the Fifth Army was about to become a lonely army, so he hurriedly ordered a retreat.

The retreat of the Fifth Army should have been smoother than that of the Fourth Army, because Crotone's fierce attack almost turned Syracuse's right flank into a semicircle, and of course the left flank where Crotone's army was located. In an arc, the Crotone soldier at the far left was originally facing south and back to north, but finally turned to face west and back to east. After being attacked by reinforcements from the Fasci Pesas, they fled mainly to the southeast. And the soldiers of the Celestine led by Ashes were closer to the middle, because the mother state of Celestine was not far to the east, and most of the soldiers of the Celestine did not know that there were enemy reinforcements blocking the east, or instinctively fled to the east. The Rotones huddled together.